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The Battle for Social Security: From FDR's Vision To Bush's Gamble

This book illuminates the politics and policy of the current struggle over Social Security in light of the program′s compelling history and ingenious structure. After a brief introduction describing the dramatic response of the Social Security Administration to the 9/11 terrorist attack, the book recounts Social Security‚ s lively history. Although President Bush has tried to convince Americans that Social Security is designed for the last century and unworkable for an aging population, readers will see that the President′s assault is just another battle in a longstanding ideological war. Prescott Bush, the current President‚ s grandfather, remarked of FDR, "The only man I truly hated lies buried in Hyde Park." The book traces the continuous thread leading from Prescott Bush and his contemporaries to George W. Bush and others who want to undo Social Security. The book concludes with policy recommendations which eliminate Social Security′s deficit in a manner consistent with the program′s philosophy and structure.

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The battle for social security: from FDR's vision to Bush's gamble

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Social Security is still the most relied-upon government program, and one hotly contested by many conservatives. Enacted in 1935 to deal with unemployment, disability, and poverty - especially among ... Read full review

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If you want to understand why the health care debate went the way it did, you must return to the beginnings of Social Security and follow the debate forward to current times. This book is the authority on that particular subject.Read full review

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About the author (2005)

NANCY J. ALTMAN is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Pension Rights Center. From 1977 to 1981, she was advisor to Senator John C. Danforth (R-Mo.) on Social Security issues. In 1982, she was assistant to Alan Greenspan when he chaired the bipartisan commission that produced the 1983 Social Security amendments. From 1983 to 1989, Altman was on the faculty of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and taught courses on Social Security and private pensions at the Harvard Law School.